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Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union

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$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$341k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

57% of Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Twinstar Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 19 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
10
’18
11
’19
8
’20
10
’21
20
’22
30
’23
19
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MEducation$479kHuman Services$222kArts & Culture$129kHealth$115kYouth Development$45kSocial Science$10kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$517k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $622,477 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,657,467 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,034,990 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $239k
  • $250k+1 grant · $341k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TWINSTAR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$341,075
GOWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$45,000
SPSCC FOUNDATION$38,500
SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY$37,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OR AND SW WA$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SO PUGET SOUND$12,500
EUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY$10,000
OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC$10,000
ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER$10,000
OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER$10,000
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE$10,000
SOUTH SOUND YMCA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THURSTON COUNTY$10,000
ASIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $45k → 9%GOWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $28k → 9%GOWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $16k → 9%NORTHWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATIONCU4KIDS: $16k → 9%NORTHWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%POPE'S KIDS PLACE: $6k → 12%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATRE: $10k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $10k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATRE: $10k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATRE: $10k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $10k → 9%OLYMPIA FAMILY THEATER: $7k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $8k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $6k → 9%CIELO: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
26

Total granted

$1.3M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SM
    SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +68%
  • GF
    GOWEST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue ×16
  • MF
    MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • GH
    GRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +764%
  • CR
    COLUMBIA RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • CY
    COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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2
Communities in Schools of Puyallup

The mission of communities in schools of puyallup (cisp) is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
3
Community Foundation of Snohomish County

The Community Foundation of Snohomish County (the Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Washington. The Foundation serves as a community foundation, supporting a broad spectrum of…

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
5
Independent Colleges of Washington

Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

Education
6
Community Child Care Center

To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.

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7
Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce

Committed to fostering relationships between members and the community. to serve the interest of members by acting as a catalyst for a vibrant sustainable economy.

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8
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
9
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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10
East Cascades Workforce Investment Board

The east cascades workforce investment board supports the talent needs of employers, and maximizes and aligns investments in the career goals of individuals to fuel a thriving economy.

Employment
11
Community Center for Education Results

Ccer drives systems change in education by centering student experiences, propelling robust research, and partnering with communities to transform washington state schools.

Education
12
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound and the most unlike its peers is Twinstar Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation & Youth Developme…Lane County Community Servi…Basic Needs Support ServicesCommunity Clubs and Associa…Wildlife and Habitat Conser…Independent K-12 SchoolsFamily Philanthropic Founda…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Community Arts Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
13%
1,238/9,624

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
41/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TWINSTAR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,722,918 · PhilanthropyTWINSTAR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $80,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $41,493 · PhilanthropySECRETARY OF STATE — $78,000 · OtherSECRETARY OF STATENORTH THURSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $72,000 · OtherNORTH THURSTON PUB…THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $42,500 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY CH…City of Lacey — $40,000 · OtherCity of LaceyGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherLacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce Lacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce — $23,525 · OtherFranklin Pierce School District No 402 — $22,292 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation — $22,125 · OtherTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $20,000 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COU — $19,500 · Other+22 more — $179,643 · Other+22 moreSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $202,002 · EducationSAINT MARTIN'S U…SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $184,000 · EducationSOUTH PUGET SOUN…Evergreen School District Foundation 114 — $46,500 · EducationEvergreen School…OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $16,450 · Education+4 more — $30,192 · Education+4 moreGOWEST FOUNDATION — $114,875 · Human ServicesOlympia Family Theater — $47,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $23,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesPIZZA KLATCH — $9,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,635 · Human ServicesThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $28,673 · Arts & CultureAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $25,500 · Arts & CultureMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $85,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $15,000 · HealthTOGETHER — $9,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA RIVER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $6,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $21,250 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $6,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,844,411Other$544,585Education$479,144Human Services$222,010Arts & Culture$129,173Health$115,000Youth Development$45,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTWINSTAR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,722,918 over 8y, 98% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY — $202,002 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $184,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGOWEST FOUNDATION — $114,875 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THURSTON COUNTY — $80,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetThe Washington Center for the Performing Arts — $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOlympia Family Theater — $47,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetEvergreen School District Foundation 114 — $46,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $42,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $28,673 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAYS HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce Lacey South Sound Chamber of Commerce — $23,525 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN — $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of South Puget Sound — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $22,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY — $21,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COU — $19,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEWIS COUNTY — $18,993 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGOWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEWIS COUNTY — $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $16,450 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $10,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON DBA ASIAN COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPARKS ARTS RECREATION AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF THURSTON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPIZZA KLATCH — $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTOGETHER — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL WILLAMETTE CREDIT UNION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Alliance Public Benefit Non-Profit Corporation — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetONALASKA ALLIANCE — $6,692 over 1y, 12% of budgetPOLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $6,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY EDUCATION & SUPPORT SERVICES — $6,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOPE'S KIDS PLACE — $6,160 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADIA TECHNICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH THURSTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,902 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Dawkins Charitable Tr…Thurston County Econo…School's Out Washingt…United Way of Thursto…Multicare Health Syst…The Norcliffe Foundat…Medina FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Renah Blair Rietzke F…Pacific Mountain Work…
The Community Foundation of South Puget SoundWA42× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Dawkins Charitable Trust · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · School's Out Washington · United Way of Thurston County · Multicare Health System · The Norcliffe Foundation · Medina Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Renah Blair Rietzke Family Foundation · Pacific Mountain Workforce Development Council

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Credit Unions in the State of Washington Peak Credit Union funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Albany Public Schools Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Central Willamette Credit Union — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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